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The last tool that you need in your arsenal before getting to see what your GTX 580 is made off is the FurMark stress testing utility, available for download here. I recommend installing both of these tools and see what works best for you, Nvidia Inspector being also a really good alternative to GPU-Z, so you are really hitting two rabbits with one stone by going with this software.
Right now, the latest beta version is Afterburner 2.1 Beta 4, GTX 580 support making its way in the change log.Īnother utility that supports the GTX 580 is Nvidia Inspector tool, this utility looking a lot like GPU-Z although it also comes with a really thorough overclocking panel, this being available for download from our website. There's no need to worry though, beta versions of this tool are also available and usually come with support for the latest graphics cards out there. Unfortunately, heading over to MSI's Afterburner website and downloading these tools gets us the 2.0 version, this coming without voltage control support for the GTX 580 as I soon found out for myself when trying to overclock the card for the upcoming review.
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Pre-requisitesīefore we start, the first thing to do is to download a few free tools from the Web, our main goal being to find a way of changing the core's voltage without resorting to hardware modes and other stuff like that, the GF110 coming with a CHiL 8266 digital PWM controller which decides just how much juice the core needs.Īs its the case with many other PWM controllers used in today's top end graphics cards this can be also controlled via software, MSI Afterburner certainly being one of the most wide known tools available to overclockers worldwide.
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With this in mind, we set up to bring our users a quick guide that will enable them to unlock the full potential of the GTX 580, Nvidia's card coming with an impressive overclocking headroom for an flagship product as you will most certainly see for yourself.
This is what happened to us when we reviewed the GTX 580 as well, and this is where the idea about writing such an GTX 580 overclocking guide came from, as most review sites out there don't mention what tools they used in order to overclock, leaving early adopters to search for themselves the right tool for the job.
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Every time a new graphics card comes out, especially one based on a new architecture such as Nvidia's GTX 580, early adopters and overclockers alike have to get over all sort of problems if they want to squeeze the maximum performance possible out of their brand spanking new GPU, so we are going t make this whole process a lot easier for all those of you GTX 580 owners out there that find themselves stuck in such a situation.Īll the info that is shared in this article comes from Softpedia's own experiments with the GTX 580, Nvidia's graphics card making its way into our test labs just a few days ago.įor now we are going to limit ourselves to this overclocking tutorial as more info about the GTX 580 architecture as well as its performances will be covered in our review, that is bound to hit real soon.īut getting back to the matter at hand, the first thing that I am going to do is to take a quick look at the card's default clocks to see where we stand.Īs you can certainly see for yourself the GTX 580's default core clock is set at 772MHz, its memory being clocked at 1002MHz (4008MHz data rate) while the shader clock runs at 1544MHz, being set at double the core's frequency, as its the case with all Fermi based video cards.Īs in the GF100, this can't be altered by itself, so overclocking these cards is a matter of changing only two frequencies as well as the core's voltage.Īnd here is where we came into our first hurdle with overclocking the GTX 580, as voltage tuning utilities that support Nvidia's new GF110 core are really scarce at this time.Īs a hardware reviewer, one runs into this sort of situations all the time, limited software support being one of the main reasons why overclocking results are not covered by every single review out there, especially when we are talking about new architectures that usually come with pre-production drivers and the like.
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